School Notes: Seventh-graders visit planetarium

Horace Mann Middle School seventh-graders visit the planetarium at Wausau West High School.

Every year, Wausau School District seventh-graders visit the planetarium at Wausau West High School to learn about optics and properties of light. Refraction and reflection are two of these properties. Students learn how to use freely available star maps to find objects in the sky so they may observe in the real sky. Students are encouraged to attend optional free telescope "star parties" hosted by the planetarium. Additionally, students view a 20-minute program created with international collaboration called "Two Small Pieces of Glass." This Fulldome or IMAX-style video covers the invention of the telescope, the first and biggest use of optics some 400 years ago, and how it has changed and continues to change history.

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School Notes: Seventh-graders visit planetarium

Every year, Wausau School District seventh-graders visit the planetarium at Wausau West High School to learn about optics and properties of light. Refraction and reflection are two of these

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